LOS ANGELES — Slide shows of amateur photography aren’t usually premiered at ArcLight Cinemas in
Hollywood, but rules are often bent for Beatles.

“That’s one of me!” Ringo Starr said excitedly when he saw his face on the big screen last week.
“I like that one!”

Starr, 73, was kicking off a day of media interviews pegged to his visual autobiography,
Photograph, and his upcoming All-Starr Band tour of South America and Mexico.

He offered dozens of photos of, or by, himself and the three band mates he refers to as “the
lads” — John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. The snapshots form a central part of the
photographic narrative contained in the limited-edition
Photograph book.

Starr told a small group of reporters and fans that he first picked up a camera when he was 17
or 18 and has carried one with him ever since.

A dozen of his shots were enlarged, framed and put on display at the front of the theater where
Starr held court after comments from several speakers, including drummers Dave Grohl of the Foo
Fighters and Nirvana and Steve Gorman of the Black Crowes.

Starr said the book, which came out earlier in the year in a digital edition designed for iPads,
is in part his response to requests for him to write a book about his life.

“I’ve been asked to do my autobiography,” he said at the press conference, “but they’re really
only interested in eight years,” referring to the span from when he joined the Beatles in August
1962 until the Fab Four acrimoniously disbanded in April 1970.

“But I had a life before I joined the Beatles, and I’ve had one after I left,” he said. “There
would be five volumes before I got into the Beatles. I can’t remember ever reading anyone’s
autobiography. It’s just too much reading. I thought this was a better way to do it.”

The physical version of
Photograph is a hand-bound limited edition of 2,500 copies, signed by Starr, selling for
$550. Its 304 pages include about 240 photographs, both those of Starr and many he shot himself and
is sharing publicly for the first time.

Starr said his proceeds from the sale of the books will be donated to the Lotus Foundation, the
nonprofit founded by Starr and his wife, actress Barbara Bach, to support charitable projects
advancing social welfare.

Genesis Publications co-owner Nick Roylance said the company, which issued Starr’s previous book
Postcards From the Boys in 2004, would also make a donation to Lotus for each book
sold.

Asked by moderator Melinda Newman whether it is true that he had never taken a photography
course, Starr drolly replied, “Never took a drum lesson either.”

Starr was accompanied by Bach and George Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, as well as the
members of the All-Starr Band.

At the event, Starr also previewed snippets of the material he will be playing on the South
American tour.

As always since he started the All-Starr Band in 1989 with a rotating roster of rock and pop
performers, Starr alternated his Beatles and solo hits with theirs.

In a question-and-answer session, Rundgren extolled the camaraderie among the members of the
All-Starr Band, who have been together since 2012, noting that “We hang out together; we eat
together; we genuinely like being together.”

Asked about his motivation to continue touring, Starr responded with a quip that camouflaged his
continuing passion for making music.